WHATEVER the faults which are attributed to General Grant may be, they must ever be eclipsed by the virtue of his strict honesty and sterling integrity. In the dark ways of political intrigue or financial trickery he never entered; at the very door his upright soul revolted. Circumstances illustrating this frequently come to light. Admiral Ammen has lately given out for publication a private letter from General Grant, in which he states that he is in receipt of an offer from Seligman, the great financial agent of De Lesseps, of the New York presidency of the Panama Canal, with a salary of 125,000 francs per annum. This he refused, giving as a reason that while he would be glad to be associated with the success of an inter-oceanic canal, he could not connect with what he regarded as a failure, and where those who intrusted their means must be losers. Personally he could lose nothing, his salary was secure, but to his honor be it said that he held the injury which might come to others before his own advantage and turned away from the allurement.